Inhibited Spontaneous Emission by a Rydberg Atom

1985/11/11 by Randall G. Hulet, Eric S. Hilfer, Daniel Kleppner · 13 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Atomic physics #Rydberg atom #Spontaneous emission #Atom (system on chip) #Physics #Rydberg formula #Cutoff #Laser #Optics #Ionization #Ion #Quantum mechanics

paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.55.2137

openalex publication_date 1985/11/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Spontaneous radiation by an atom in a Rydberg state has been inhibited by use of parallel conducting planes to eliminate the vacuum modes at the transition frequency. Spontaneous emission is observed to "turn off" abruptly at the cutoff frequency of the waveguidelike structure and the natural lifetime is measured to increase by a factor of at least 20.

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